Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Magazine (Vulture)
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For 183 reviews, this critic has graded:
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43% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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53% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.8 points lower than other critics.
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Matt Zoller Seitz's Scores
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Positive: 100 out of 183
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Mixed: 64 out of 183
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Negative: 19 out of 183
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- Matt Zoller Seitz
For the most part, Oz is an awesome achievement - an alternately crude and elegant attempt to expand the boundaries of the one-hour drama. If it can avoid an over reliance on prison movie clichs, stay focused on the redemption theme and give its powerhouse cast more room to breathe, it could be one of the most important works ever aired on American television. [12 July 1997, p.29]Posted May 15, 2013 -
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The greatest dramatic series in the history of American television. [6 Mar 2005, p.1]Posted Oct 4, 2013 -
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LeBlanc is brilliant; the writing and direction are brilliant; the show is brilliant.- Posted Feb 3, 2011
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Archer is the next generation version of "Get Smart," with a similarly thickheaded, overconfident, horny hero whose petulant deadpan lines are funnier than they have any right to be.- Posted Feb 3, 2011
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- Posted Mar 24, 2011
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Is Game of Thrones one of the great HBO series? It's too early to tell, though judged purely as an immense yet improbably graceful narrative machine, I'd have to say yes.- Posted Apr 3, 2012
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[Homeland] sounds as though it could have been pitched as "The Manchurian Candidate: The Series." But set that aside, if you can, and look at what's on-screen, because it'll reward your attention.- Posted Oct 3, 2011
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A masterful two-hour finale to an already exceptional program. [21 Oct 2004]Posted Jul 25, 2013 -
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- Posted Mar 21, 2013
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There’s a solid, patient, confident quality to this movie that’s rarely seen in modern mainstream cinema. It’s better than most American films playing in theaters, and better than most of HBO’s films, too.- Posted May 24, 2013
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At its best, Futurama blends raised-eyebrow postgraduate-thesis humor and fifth-grade-lunchroom spit-take humor. That’s not a combination you see every day--and as a bonus, Futurama stirs in unironically beautiful, at times thrilling visuals.- Posted Jun 17, 2013
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"The Larry Sanders Show" is the most painful comedy on TV, and I mean that as a compliment. At its best, this half-hour sitcom, set in and around a Los Angeles-based talk show, achieves a sublime level of cruelty. [13 Mar 1998]Posted Jul 17, 2013 -
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An earnest, soulful update of the Superman myth. [16 Oct 2001, p.55]Posted Aug 6, 2013 -
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"Curb" never presents itself as anything but a cleverly plotted, deliberately offensive comedy. But it's more than a comedy: It's a comedy of manners, or bad manners; delightfully rude, and, in its unreal way, honest. [3 Jan 2004]Posted Jul 9, 2013 -
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It believes in the story it's telling and expects everyone watching the series not just to have a good time, but to commit. If every drama series had a tenth as much passion, TV would be a far more interesting place.- Posted Sep 7, 2011
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Sherlock is a wonderful series. Just thinking about it makes me smile.- Posted May 7, 2012
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Even at its worst, Boss radiates intelligence and toughness, and an appreciation of politics as a nonstop performance in an unscripted drama.- Posted Oct 21, 2011
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It lets you simultaneously laugh at and with the characters, and feel justified for laughing, then ashamed, and then the pendulum swings back again; this is a much messier and more fascinating set of reactions than what sitcoms typically evoke.- Posted Jan 10, 2013
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The physicality of the visuals and the performances helps power Game of Thrones past any rough patches--not that there have been that many.- Posted Mar 29, 2013
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This series is Burns doing Guthrie, bringing a lifetime of experience and craft to bear on a story of people struggling through hard times. He's picking up a guitar and telling us a story--a great one.- Posted Nov 19, 2012
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For all its gore, gunfire, and criminal nastiness, it's a joyous show; even when the characters are scowling, the show seems to be grinning at you.- Posted Jan 8, 2013
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I suspect it might be a classic that deserves a spot in the pantheon of great, long-delayed follow-ups, though I need to watch the whole thing again and live with it and then write about it again to be sure. That I’d want to rewatch the whole season immediately is, of course, another, possibly higher compliment.- Posted May 30, 2013
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Oh My God is animated by deep skepticism and an appreciation of joy, qualities that don’t normally mix in comedy and that might seem, in a different context, incompatible. But they aren’t incompatible--not here, anyway.- Posted Apr 12, 2013
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But what's amazing, maybe even revolutionary, about The Corner is this: as its narrative plays out in six laid-back, detail-packed, one-hour installments, you come to see that all the major characters don't belong in this place, in this life. [16 Apr 2000, p.1]Posted Sep 19, 2013 -
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The phrase "stream-of- consciousness" doesn't do it justice. Geyser-of-consciousness is more like it. What holds it together is the program's unique comic voice. [12 Sep 1997]Posted Jul 8, 2013 -
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NBC's half-hour slice of small-town life isn't perfect right out of the gate; few shows are. But it's so sure-footed and engaging that it would be a pleasure to see how it turns out. [7 Oct 2000, p.43]Posted Jun 13, 2013 -
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It's an absurdist comedy about criminal behavior and suburban life that gently mocks its targets while taking its characters and their emotions seriously. [9 Jan 1999, p.23]Posted Apr 1, 2013 -
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The most stylistically innovative comedy to hit American television since HBO's great, barely seen "The Larry Sanders Show" ... It's also the most squirm-inducing look at everyday deceit that I've seen outside of an Albert Brooks or Woody Allen movie. [14 Oct 2000]Posted Jul 9, 2013 -
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A welcome surprise - an unabashed melodrama that doesn't wink at the audience but doesn't take itself too seriously, either. Every choice it makes, from pacing to photography to music, seems just about right, and the casting is inspired. (I appreciate that it filled its lead roles with two young men who are somewhat credible on the court.) [23 Sept 2003, p.43]Posted Jun 30, 2013
